With grain market uncertainty greater than ever, now may be the time to focus on your marketing strategy.
Large-scale agriculture is essential to feed the world’s burgeoning mega-cities, but the food and farming industry must do more to be more open and sustainable.
Storms Ciara and Dennis should act as a prompt for farmers to ensure they are adequately covered both for damage to the farm and the environment.
Arla has announced that its UK March manufacturing milk price is to increase by 0.90ppl to 30.9ppl, in line with increases for its European farmer suppliers.
UK wool’s future in China is potentially enormous as shoppers value its heritage, style and quality, according to Graham Clark, Marketing Director at British Wool.
Chinese dairy imports could be down a quarter or more as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus as diners in the country are forced to stay at home, analysis by Rabobank has revealed.
More than a quarter of UK food and drink businesses spent at least £1 million on stockpiling last year for a threatened no-deal Brexit which never took place.
There had been some optimism among beef producers that the turning of the year would bring better prices.
Farmers may look back on the 2019/20 grain season as one of the most buffeted by external events they can remember.
The government is planning a trade policy with as few tariffs as possible, but the farming industry warns that must not allow the import of products which could put British farmers out of business.